deflated

Empty of all the air or gas that was or could be inside.

While, of course it is not advisable to run on a deflated tire, tests have been made which showed that this type of tire was not damaged after it was running several miles.

Except for turnings with a deflated rear tire as an outerside tire, difference in the performance is small between fixed control and manual control.

Disappointed; depressed, especially after having been hopeful or in high spirits.

I sat down in the lounge at K.G. very deflated and also concerned.

Our self-esteem is so low, our healthy ego so deflated, that we can't imagine having a life that is truly free.

Reduced or lowered.

Instead, a terrific escalation of corporate rivalries was combined with a deflated power medium and an exceedingly inflated influence medium, particularly in the area of purely technical expertise.

We will thus be left with a deflated concept of truth — a "thin" concept whose understanding is exhausted by the deflationary account of "true," a concept that is isolated from all other concepts of interest to us and can play no substantive explanatory role with respect to them.

Adjusted downward to compensate for inflation.

Among these relationships are the correlation for the years 1923-40 of personal saving and disposable personal income in current dollars, the correlation of deflated per capita saving with deflated per capita income, the correlation of saving with income and accumulated liquid assets on a deflated per capita basis, the correlation of deflated per capita saving with income and a cyclical variable such as the ratio of current to past peak income, and the correlation of the ratio of saving to income with a cyclical variable alone.

In general, the output measure used in calculating these indexes is based on a deflated value concept and is developed in the following way:

Suffering from deflation.

The result is striking: durables unfilled orders fell almost continuously from the beginning of 1947 until the end of the recession, and there was only a submerged second cycle in the deflated purchased-materials investment series.

I am not talking about a deflated economy.